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Letter from L.M. Wilkins to James acknowledging reciept of blankets, great coats and rugs for relief of the Mi'kmaq. Dated Windsor.
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186f.
Windsor 5 January 1801
My dear
I have just received four pair of blankets three great coats and twelve rugs that accompanied your letter of the 3rd [ illegible] and will thank you to inform Sir [ illegible] that ? have much pleasure in distributing them amongst the most needy of the Indians in this neighbourhood.
Very ? yours
L M Wilkins
Mr W James
Date: 1838
Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 186f
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